This could almost have formed a segment of Since You Went Away which Joseph Cotton and Shirley Temple made that same year. It's also referential in borrowing the basic plot of One-Way Passage (itself remade as Till We Meet Again) substituting a train for an ocean liner but retaining the criminal and health elements; in One-Way Passage William Powell is a convict being escorted back to the States by a cop, Pat O'Brien, who meets on board ship Merle Oberon, who is terminally ill. Both conceal these rather important facts from the other and fall in love. This time around the roles are reversed and it is Ginger Rogers who is serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and has been released in order to spend Christmas with an aunt and Joseph Cotton who is not terminally ill but suffering with serious combat fatigue. Once again Rogers finds herself sharing a bedroom with a teenager and falling for a soldier - four years earlier she bunked with Diana Lynn in and fell for Ray Milland in Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor. It's a pleasant, sentimental, hokey even, entry a reminder of how wholesome films used to be.
Review of I'll Be Seeing You
